© ROBERT MORNING SKY 2008 -
GOD & THE BIBLE
A BRIEF OBSERVATION
Certainly there are those who believe that I am being too harsh in my commentary on the previously listed words. To these critics I would respond with two statements:
1. Each of the above listings are taken directly from The New Strong’s Expanded Dictionary of Bible Words, a standard reference work for Bible study. Each scholar who assisted in putting together the previously offered definitions firmly believes that they have faithfully conveyed the intent of the ancient scribes thousands of years ago.
2. If my commentary is ‘harsh’ or unwarranted, please remember, I have no problem with those who wish to relegate me to the status of ‘madman’. As I stated before, I can live with that assessment.
But I am not done yet.
INSIDEWARD
According to the index of the New Strong’s Expanded Dictionary of Bible Words, in the Hebrew language of the Bible, the following word is identified as ‘insideward’.
bayith – ‘a house’ (in the greatest variety of applications, especially ‘a family’, etc.); ‘court’, ‘daughter’, ‘door’, ‘door to the dungeon’, ‘family’, ‘come forth of a family’, ‘as great as would contain’, ‘hangings’, ‘homeborn’, ‘winterhouse’, ‘household’, ‘inside’, ‘insideward’, ‘palace’, ‘place’, ‘prison place’, ‘prison steward’, ‘prison tablet’, ‘temple’, ‘web’, ‘within a web’, ‘without a web’ [Entry 1004 Hebrew probably from Entry 1129 abbreviated]
DERIVED FROM
banah – a primitive root meaning ‘to build’ (literally and figuratively); ‘to begin to build’, ‘to build’, ‘builder’, ‘to obtain children’, ‘to make’, ‘to repair’, ‘to set’, ‘to set up’, ‘to surely set up’; ‘child’, ‘stranger’, ‘people’, ‘branch’ – “Banah means ‘to build’, ‘to establish’, ‘to construct’, ‘to rebuild’. (4) Banah can also refer to ‘rebuilding’ something that is destroyed.” [Entry 1129 Hebrew]
According to the scholars of the New Strong’s Expanded Dictionary of Bible Words, the Hebrew word bayith means ‘a house’, ‘a daughter’, ‘within a web’, ‘without a web’, and ‘homeborn’. Last but not least, it also means ‘insideward’. (Remember, the Strong’s scholars tell us it is what the ancient scribes intended bayith to mean.)